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INSTRUCTOR’S
SOLUTIONS MANUAL

A N I NTRODUCTION TO
M ATHEMATICAL S TATISTICS
AND I TS A PPLICATIONS
SIXTH EDITION

Richard Larsen
Vanderbilt University

Morris Marx
University of West Florida

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Contents

Chapter 2: Probability ..............................................................................................................1

2.2 Samples Spaces and the Algebra of Sets ............................................................................. 1


2.3 The Probability Function ..................................................................................................... 6
2.4 Conditional Probability ....................................................................................................... 7
2.5 Independence ..................................................................................................................... 13
2.6 Combinatorics ................................................................................................................... 17
2.7 Combinatorial Probability ................................................................................................. 24

Chapter 3: Random Variables ................................................................................................27

3.2 Binomial and Hypergeometric Probabilities ..................................................................... 27


3.3 Discrete Random Variables ............................................................................................... 36
3.4 Continuous Random Variables .......................................................................................... 41
3.5 Expected Values ................................................................................................................ 44
3.6 The Variance ..................................................................................................................... 52
3.7 Joint Densities ................................................................................................................... 57
3.8 Transforming and Combining Random Variables............................................................. 69
3.9 Further Properties of the Mean and Variance.................................................................... 73
3.10 Order Statistics .................................................................................................................. 79
3.11 Conditional Densities ........................................................................................................ 82
3.12 Moment-Generating Functions.......................................................................................... 88

Chapter 4: Special Distributions ............................................................................................93

4.2 The Poisson Distribution ................................................................................................... 93


4.3 The Normal Distribution ................................................................................................... 98
4.4 The Geometric Distribution............................................................................................. 105
4.5 The Negative Binomial Distribution ............................................................................... 107
4.6 The Gamma Distribution ................................................................................................. 109

Chapter 5: Estimation...........................................................................................................111

5.2 Estimating Parameters: The Method of Maximum Likelihood


and Method of Moments ................................................................................................. 111
5.3 Interval Estimation .......................................................................................................... 118
5.4 Properties of Estimators .................................................................................................. 123
5.5 Minimum-Variance Estimators: The Cramér-Rao Lower Bound ................................... 128
5.6 Sufficient Estimators ....................................................................................................... 130
5.7 Consistency ..................................................................................................................... 133
5.8 Bayesian Estimation ........................................................................................................ 135

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and mineralogy in univ. of Durham from its foundation 1833 to
death; chemist to Agricultural society of Scotland 1843 to date
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July 1815; proposed establishment of steam communication with
India viâ the Mediterranean and Red Sea 1823; designed iron
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H.E.I. Company’s steamers 1833–50. d. on his way home from
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1838 to 12 July 1850; served in Canadian rebellion 1837–8; col. 87
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church in 1847, convener of committee on education 1847 to death;
moderator of synod 1854; a jubilee service held in his honor 27
Aug. 1873 when he was presented with an epergne and 1000
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engraver, Edin. 1 Dec. 1825; founded with his brother, firm of W.
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Queen 2 Dec. 1837; purchased the business of the Messrs. Lizars
1859; built the Edina works, Easter road, Edinb. 1878; high
constable of Edin. 1828; moderator to the high constables 1831, 32
and 39; member of dean of guild court 1831, of town council 1832;
a bailie of Edin. 1840, lord provost 1848–51; knighted at Holyrood
palace 26 Aug. 1851; retired from business 1867; joined with his
brother in the production of atlases and maps. d. Kirkhill house near
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York 1845–73. d. Sutton hall, Thirsk 15 May 1882.
JOHNSTONE, C I . b. Fifeshire 1781. (m. Mr. M’Leish,
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June 1833 when it was converted into ‘Johnstone’s Edinburgh
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housewife’s manual. By Mistress Margaret Dods of the Cleikum
inn, St. Ronans 1826, 11 ed. 1862; Nights of the round table, or
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Sep. 1757; ed. at free gram. sch. there and at univ. of Edinb.; B.D.,
M.D. 1779; one of physicians of Birmingham general hospital
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of the Literary association of the Friends of Poland 1832; author of
What is Poland? a question of geography, history and public law
1836; The general orders and practice of the courts of common law
in Ireland 1854; claimed the dormant marquisate of Annandale
1876, claim dismissed by House of Lords as not having been proved
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1843; edited with his father The Medico-Chirurgical Review; had a
large practice, retired through bad health 1848; resided in France
1848–50; presumed to be author of a series of letters in The Times
beginning 20 Dec. 1851, exposing and condemning Louis
Napoleon’s imperial designs; author of Clinical observations on
diseases of the genito-urinary organs 1851. d. High view, St.
Lawrence, Ramsgate 19 Oct. 1889.
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in Edin., Paris and London; professor of materia medica and
therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham 1841 to death; phys.
to the general hospital 1841 to death; pres. of British Medical
Association, Sep. 1865; author of A therapeutic arrangement and
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sensation as connected with the mental, physical and instructive
faculties of man 1841. d. Leamington 11 May 1869. Langford’s
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1815; a messenger of bankruptcy court, Basinghall st. 1842–61;
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buildings, accountants 1861 to death; bought the Morning Herald
and Standard newspapers from Charles Baldwin for £16,500 in
1857, issued the Standard as a morning paper 29 June 1857 at price
of 2 pence, reduced price to 1 penny 4 Feb. 1858; started the
Evening Herald 29 June 1857 which ceased 27 May 1865; the
Morning Herald ceased 31 Dec. 1869; discontinued evening issue of
the Standard 29 June 1857, but revived it 11 June 1860, appeared in
a new form 1 Jany. 1870, sometimes circulated 100,000 copies; paid
off all his liabilities and became sole proprietor of Standard 1870. d.
Hooley house, Coulsdon, Surrey 21 Oct. 1878. J. Hatton’s
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JOHNSTONE, J B . b. Dublin 12 March 1803; an actor in
Ireland, the provinces and London; never had more than £2 a week
up to 1882; at Princess’s theatre under Wilson Barrett 1882;
presented with a testimonial and £60 by 200 actors on his eightieth
birthday 12 March 1883; author of upwards of 200 dramas for
which he received on an average about £5; he sold an extravaganza
and a farce to David W. Osbaldiston for 15/-; his chief printed
dramas are The Drunkard’s children. Pavilion theatre July 1848;
The gipsy farmer or Jack and Jack’s brother. Surrey theatre March
1849; Gale Breezely or the tale of a tar. Surrey 1853; Ben Bolt.
Surrey 28 March 1854; The sailor of France. Surrey 28 Nov. 1854;
Tufelhausen or the lawyer’s legend. Surrey 24 March 1856; Pedrillo
or a search for two fathers. Marylebone theatre 16 Nov. 1857;
Morley Ashton or a sea voyage 1866; Jack Long or a shot in the eye
1872. d. 25 April 1891. bur. Brompton cemet. The Era 17 March
1883 p. 8.
JOHNSTONE, J D . b. 1808; ensign 3 foot 15 Aug. 1827;
captain 33 foot 19 Oct. 1838, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 17 April
1860 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 17 April 1860; C.B. 27
July 1855. d. Dublin 19 Sep. 1863.
N .—He and his son J. D. Johnstone were the first in the assault on the Redan, where he
lost his left arm.

JOHNSTONE, S J V B , 2 Baronet. b. Hackness hall


near Scarborough 28 Aug. 1799; ed. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1821; succeeded 14 July 1807; M.P. Yorkshire 1830–32; M.P.
Scarborough 1832–7 and 1841 to death; major Yorkshire hussars 22
April 1843, lieut. col. 6 April 1859 to 30 Aug. 1859; while hunting
in Northamptonshire broke a rib which entered his lungs 20 Feb., d.
34 Belgrave sq. London 25 Feb. 1869. bur. at parish church,
Hackness 3 March. Reg. and mag. of Biog. i 294 (1869).
JOHNSTONE, M C (3 son of James Raymond
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ensign 27 foot 27 Feb. 1823, lieut. col. 16 Nov. 1841 to 23 March
1849; lieut. col. 87 foot 23 March 1849 to 26 Oct. 1858; col. 88 foot
10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 29 Dec. 1873. d. Baden Baden 22
Sep. 1874.
JOHNSTONE, W (son of Mr. Johnstone, colliery manager to Mr.
Dixon of the Govan iron works, Lanarkshire). b. parish of Old
Monkland near Glasgow 1 July 1811; articled to David Smith of
Glasgow, C.E. 1826–33; engineer and general manager of Glasgow
and Ayr railway 1840, of Glasgow and South western railway to 31
Dec. 1874, the former line gradually developed into the latter; pres.
of Institution of engineers in Scotland 1861–63, formed in 1857
chiefly by W. J. M. Rankine and himself; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866. d.
Glasgow 27 April 1877.
JOHNSTONE, W B (son of John Johnstone, solicitor).
b. Edinb. 21 July 1804; in a lawyer’s office, Edinb.; attended
antique classes of Trustees academy 1840–2; exhibited at Trustees
academy exhibitions from 1836 to death; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1840,
member 1848, treasurer 1850; took his mother’s name of Borthwick
1847; oil, water-colour and miniature painter; his picture, A scene
in Holyrood, 1855 is in National gallery of Scotland; first principal
curator of Nat. Gall. of Scotland 1858; his collections of arms,
armour and pictures, sold by Chapman, a 6 days’ sale; author of
Catalogue of the National gallery of Scotland 1859, 18 ed. 1868. d.
3 Gloucester place, Edinb. 5 June 1868.
JOHNSTONE, S W J H (2 son of sir Wm. Johnstone
Hope, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. Haddingtonshire 28 July 1798;
entered navy 20 June 1811, captain 21 Oct. 1823, R.A. 22 April
1853, V.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 24 Sep. 1863; commander in chief
on S.E. coast of America 1854–57; at Sheerness 28 June 1860 to 25
June 1863; R.A. of the United Kingdom 12 Feb. 1870, placed on
retired list April 1870; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 24 Albany st.
Edinburgh 11 July 1878.
JOICEY, J (4 son of George Joicey of Newcastle). b. Tynemouth
1816; apprenticed to his brother James Joicey, colliery viewer
1838–41, partner in the firm to death; sheriff of Durham 1878; M.P.
North Durham April 1880 to death; A.I.C.E. 2 March 1875; erected
and endowed Newton Hall church 1877; gave sum of £12,000 to
Museum of natural history society of Northumberland and Durham
1881. d. Newton Hall, Stocksfield on Tyne 15 Aug. 1881,
personalty sworn £678,000, 28 Jany. 1882. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E.
lxix 417–18 (1882).
JOLLIE, P . Oldest bookseller in the world. d. Leslie, Fifeshire 3
Oct. 1885 aged 97.
JOLLIFFE, P W . Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1789,
M.A. 1792; P.C. of St. James, Poole, Dorset 4 May 1791 to death;
the oldest incumbent in England. d. Parkstone near Poole, March
1861 aged 95.
JOLLIFFE, T R (2 son of Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, M.P.) b.
1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of
Babington near Frome 15 Feb. 1810 to death; author of Letters from
Palestine. Signed Th. R. J. 1819, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1854; Narrative of an
excursion from Corfu to Smyrna 1827. d. Ammerdown park near
Bath 15 June 1872.
JOLLIFFE, W P (only son of Christopher Jolliffe of Poole,
Dorset). b. Poole 1812; barrister G.I. 30 June 1839, bencher 1
March 1875 to death, treasurer 1881; standing counsel to governors
of Queen Anne’s bounty 1878 to death; member of Council of legal
education. d. Bournemouth 31 May 1887.
JOLLY, J M . b. 1790; travelled with Edmund Kean and
Sheridan Knowles as an actor and conductor of the orchestra;
conductor at Surrey theatre, London 1840–60; at various periods
connected with the bands of Her Majesty’s, Drury Lane and Covent
Garden; conductor and arranger of music at Oxford music hall till
June 1863; his opera Mabel produced at Covent Garden under
Madame Vestris’ management 1840; composer of the songs, Queen
of the starry night 1855, and Where are all the young men gone
1861; The Gipsy sisters, a duet 1858; Poor Jennie, solo and quartett
1861. d. West sq. Southwark 1 July 1864. Era 10 July 1864 p. 11.
JOLY, H E . Archdeacon of Killala to death; author of
Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on the History of
religious worship of R. Whately 1849; Questions deducible from
the Introductory lessons on Christian evidences of R. Whately 1849.
d. Hollywood 3 June 1852.
JONAS, E J . b. 1805; governor of Newgate 1859–74. d.
Turle road, Tollington park, London 30 Jany. 1879.
JONAS, E . b. St. George’s road, Southwark 1825; at six years
of age was a good musician; first appeared at Mr. J. Field’s concert
as a pianiste 1832; played in oratorios at Drury Lane; scholar R.
Academy 1836, King’s scholar 1838, associate 1841, teacher of the
piano there 1838–50; residing in St. George’s road 1854. Cazalet’s
Hist. of R. Acad. of Music (1854) 299–302.
JONES, A . b. Pennsylvania near Shrewsbury 3 March 1831; fought
Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40 rounds
in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850; fought
Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge and
Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the contest
and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and 26 June
1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3 hours, Banks
of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much punished 6 Jany.
1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds in 2 hours, Banks of
the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of America, where he
trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his fight with John Morrissey
at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858; entered Confederate army
during the civil war, one of general Beauregard’s aide-de-camps;
fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000 dollars and the championship at
Busenburk station, Ohio, when Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting
26 minutes. d. Leavenworth, Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have
been poisoned. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 253, 262, 283, 382,
419.
JONES, A (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh d. 1797). b.
9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among Japanese islands
1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction after she had been
abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug. 1811; commander of
Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11; admiral on half pay 1
Nov. 1860. d. Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.
JONES, A M . Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale. London,
Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. d. a pauper 25 Jany.
1854.
JONES, A S (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79). b. 43
Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the stage at
People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia in Ingomar;
played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London at Drury Lane
5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi 1862–3; acted Lady
Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and Theodora in Watts
Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress at same house 9
April 1866; played in the provinces and in Dublin. (m. 1862
Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). d. of rapid
consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. bur. Mount Auburn
cemet. Boston. Illust. sporting news, v 145 (1866), portrait.
JONES, B O . Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12
foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col. 73
foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837; K.T.S.
d. The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.
JONES, C C . b. 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830;
went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey; serjeant at law
10 July 1844; author of Recollections of royalty, from the death of
William Rufus in 1100 to that of the cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols.
1828. d. 18 Lambeth ter. London 7 July 1852 aged 52.
JONES, C H (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) b. Liverpool
1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1840, M.B.
1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P. 1845,
F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886, vice pres.
1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the nervous
system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s hosp.
Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical observations
respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855; Clinical
observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with E. H.
Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed. 1875.
d. 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. British Medical Journal, ii
800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).
JONES, S C T (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of
Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). b. 1778; entered navy 1791;
knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810;
captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug.
1851. d. Montgomery 4 April 1853.
JONES, M . C W. b. 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in the
provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Lady
Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women at
Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane 1842;
played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic 16 Nov.
1846. d. York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866. Era 18
March 1866 p. 11.
JONES, S D . Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of
Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March
1836. d. 1856.
JONES, D (eld. son of John Jones d. 1843). b. Blaenos, Llandovery,
Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1845;
M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. d. Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July
1869.
N .—He unsuccessfully contested Sudbury 29 June 1841, and at his own sole expense
unseated the two members then returned, which led to the disfranchisement of the borough 1844.

JONES, D . b. 1810; on staff of Morning Chronicle; manager and


publisher of Saturday Review at 445 Strand, afterwards at 39
Southampton st. Strand, from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 to
his death. d. Abergele, north Wales 15 June 1884. bur. Finchley
cemetery near London 23 June.
JONES, D W . One of the 300 mounted post boys in London;
trained under Chifney at Newmarket; head lad to John Stevens;
head groom to marquis of Westminster, to General Grosvenor and
to sir John Ramsden; in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in charge of
horses; served many masters in India, Spain, France and Germany,
and could speak 3 languages; trained for Mr. De Burgh at Hampton;
frequently walked from Hampton to Hyde park corner; a very fair
jockey and a strong waster; kept a lodging house in Mayfair to
1830; became blind, his wife a pew opener kept him till her death
1854. d. Chelsea workhouse, Middlesex, June 1858. Sporting
Review, xl 4–5 (1858).
JONES, E (2 son of Robert Jones). b. Canonbury sq. Islington
20 Jany. 1820; ed. under rev. John Bickerdike at Highgate; clerk in
a tea warehouse in Mincing lane, City 1837; an accountant; sec. of a
railway co. 1846; wrote articles in the Oddfellow; lived in Paulton
square, Chelsea 1856–60; published Studies of sensation and event,
poems 1843; The land monopoly 1849. (m. 1844 Caroline niece of
Edwin Atherstone the poet, they separated, she d. 184-). d.
Brentwood, Essex 14 Sep. 1860. bur. in churchyard of Shenfield
near there. E. Jones’s Studies of sensation, ed. by R. H. Shepherd
(1879), Memoir pp. xvii–lxxxiv; Athenæum, ii 368, 401, 466 (1878).
JONES, E (eld. son of Henry Jones of Louth, Ireland). Barrister
G.I. 26 Jany. 1867; member of joint board of examiners, Inns of
Court 1877 to death; edited with John Shortt The county court acts,
with chapters upon administration, trusts, etc. 1868; author of The
law of salvage 1870. d. Woocote Dower house, Upper Wallington 3
Nov. 1890.
JONES, E (dau. of Mr. Mandelbert, actor). b. 1834; appeared at
Sadler’s Wells as Macduff’s child in Macbeth, as Arthur in King
John, and as the prince of Wales in Richard III.; acted at Olympic
and Surrey, and at Brighton, Plymouth, Dublin and Bristol; acted at
Grecian theatre, Islington 1865–74. (m. David H. Jones, actor, d. 21
Sep. 1867). d. at res. of brother in law George Chapman, musical
director, Beaufort villa, Norrisville, Bristol 5 May 1883. Era 19
May 1883 p. 9.
JONES, E C (son of Charles Jones, major 15 hussars and
aide de camp to Ernest, duke of Cumberland). b. Berlin 25 Jany.
1819; ed. St. Michael’s coll. Lüneberg; engaged in journalism in
London 1841; barrister M.T. 19 April 1844; joined the chartist
movement 1845, was the leader till 1858; contested Halifax 1847,
1852, Nottingham 1853, 1857 and Manchester 1868; arrested for
making seditious speeches, and sentenced at Central criminal court
to two years’ solitary confinement 7 July 1848; attended chartist
convention of 1851; joined the northern circuit and had much
practice; editor of the Northern Star and of The People’s Paper
1852; The Labourer 1847; author of The Wood spirit 2 vols. 1841;
My life, a rhapsody; The maid of Warsaw 1854; Woman’s wrongs,
tales 1855; The revolt of Hindostan, a poem 1857, originally written
with his own blood while in prison; Democracy vindicated, a
lecture 1867. d. Wellington st. Higher Broughton, Manchester 26
Jany. 1869. bur. Ardwick cemet. 31 Jany., demonstration in
Trafalgar sq. London in honour of his memory 26 March 1869. C.
Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections, ii 59–63 (1877); Reg. and
Mag. of Biog., March 1869 pp. 223–6; Times 27, 29, 31 March
1869.
JONES, E (son of Evan Jones). b. Bryntynoriad near Dolgelly 5 Sep.
1820; ed. Brecon coll. 1841–5; a bard of great celebrity;
independent minister, Tredegar, July 1845 to Jany. 1848; replied to
rev. John Griffith’s false charges against nonconformists, charging
them with ignorance, drunkenness and immorality 1847, and
exposed the Blue book treachery of the Education commission;
edited The Principality, a newspaper. Cardiff 1848; superintended
and wrote for the Standard of Freedom, and the Pathway 1851, two
of Cassell’s publications; published Y Gmraes, a magazine for
women Jany. 1850 to death; Yr Adolygydd, a quarterly review
March 1850 to death; known as Ieuan Gwynedd; author of The
dissent and morality of Wales 1848; Facts and figures in illustration
of the dissent and morality of Wales 1849 and many works in
Welsh; ruptured a blood vessel in London and d. Cardiff 23 Feb.
1852. bur. Groeswen near Caerphilly, monument erected by a penny
subscription. Congregational year book for 1854 p. 234–5.
JONES, G . b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 June 1793, lieut. col. 22 July
1830, col. commandant 27 Dec. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20
June 1855; a prisoner of war in France 1804–14. d. Woodside
house, Southsea 30 Jany. 1857 aged 77.
JONES, G (only son of John Jones, mezzotint engraver 1745–97).
b. 6 Jany. 1786; student at the R.A. 1801; served in the militia,
joined the army of occupation in Paris after Waterloo; painted many
pictures of Waterloo and the battles in the Peninsula; A.R.A. 1822,
R.A. 1824, librarian 1834–40, keeper 1840–50, acted as pres. 1845–
50; exhibited 221 pictures at R.A., 141 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st.
1803–70; chief adviser of Robert Vernon in forming his collection;
acted as executor for Chantrey and Turner; author of Recollections
of life of sir S. Chantrey 1849. d. 8 Park sq. Regent’s park, London
19 Sep. 1869. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 36–9 (1862);
Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii 253, 280 (1869).
JONES, G . b. about 1795; owner of Rosherville gardens,
Gravesend 1855 to death, the gardens covering a space of 17 acres
were sold for £24,600, 8 Oct. 1872. d. Lansdowne house,
Rosherville 26 June 1872.
JONES, G . b. London 10 March 1810; taken to America 1818;
appeared at Federal st. theatre, Boston 1810, at Chestnut st. theatre,
Philadelphia as Pierre in Venice preserved 7 Dec. 1831, at the Old
National, Boston as Claude Melnotte 16 May 1838; manager
Marshal theatre, Richmond, and Avon theatre, Norfolk, Sep. 1839;
visited England and lectured on the Bible; returning to America
1857 took the title of Count Joannes; lecturer at Boston; appeared at
Academy of music, New York as Hamlet 1872 and committed many
eccentricities and was thenceforth guyed whenever he was seen on
the stage; author of A history of ancient America, Tyrian era, 3 ed.
1843; Tecumseh, a tragedy, life of general Harrison, etc. 1844. d.
West-side hotel, Sixth avenue, New York 30 Dec. 1879. The Era 25
Jany. 1880 p. 4.
JONES, G M . L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1855;
surgeon in Jersey 1826 to death, surgeon to general hospital there;
he signalised himself about 1850 by performance of several
successful cases of excisions of joints especially of the knee; by his
practice and writings he contributed as much as anyone to rapid
spread of conservative surgery; the merit of reviving excision of the
knee is due to Wm. Fergusson, but Jones adopted the operation a
few weeks after Fergusson had performed it, without being aware of
the fact; author of On disarticulation of the scapula from the
shoulder joint 1860. d. Old st. St. Heliers, Jersey 7 Sep. 1861. The
Lancet, ii 264 (1861).
JONES, S H D (5 son of John Jones, general superintendent
of Landguard fort, Suffolk 1751–1806). b. Landguard fort 14 March
1792; 2 lieut. R.E. 17 Sep. 1808; served in the Peninsula 1810–14;
led the forlorn hope at siege of St. Sebastian and was wounded and
taken prisoner 25 July 1813; col. R.E. 7 July 1853 to 2 Aug. 1860; a
brigadier general for particular service in the Baltic 1854;
commanded Royal Engineers in the Crimea 10 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5
July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; governor of royal military coll.
Sandhurst 29 April 1856 to death; lieut. general 6 July 1860;
colonel commandant of Royal Engineers 2 Aug. 1860 to death; hon.
D.C.L. Oxf. 4 June 1856; A.I.C.E.; contributed papers to Institution
of Civil engineers, to United service journal and to Professional
papers of Corps of R.E.; edited sir J. T. Jones’ Reports on the
fortresses in the Netherlands 1861; compiled vol. 2 of sir H.
Elphinstone’s Journal of operations to fall of Sebastopol 1859. d.
Sandhurst 2 Aug. 1866. G.M. ii 420 (1866); I.L.N. lxv 374 (1874);
Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxx 438–40 (1870).
JONES, H L (son of Edward Jones). b. Piccadilly,
London 16 April 1806; ed. at St. John’s coll. and Magd. coll.
Camb., 7 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; fellow of his coll.,
lecturer and dean; C. of Connington 1829; settled in France 1834
and is reported to have edited a reissue of Galignani’s Paris guide;
opened a college in Manchester 1837 which did not succeed;
resided at Beaumaris 1845–9; one of H.M.’s inspectors of schools in
Wales 16 Dec. 1848 to 1864; started and edited the Archæologia
Cambrensis, Jany. 1846 to 1850; chief founder of Cambrian
Archæological Assoc. Sep. 1847; author of Illustrated history of
Carnarvonshire; Le Keux’s Memorials of Cambridge 2 vols. 1841,
with descriptive accounts by T. Wright and H. L. Jones; Essays.
Reprinted from Blackwood’s Magazine 1870. d. Kensington 16
Nov. 1870. Bibl. Cornub. i 278; Archæologia Cambrensis, ii 94–6
(1871).
JONES, H B (2 son of Wm. Jones, 5 dragoon guards). b.
Thorington hall, Yoxford, Suffolk 31 Dec. 1813; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, M.B. 1845, M.D. 1849;
L.R.C.P. 1842, F.R.C.P. 1849, senior censor; F.R.S. 30 April 1846;
assistant phys. to St. George’s hosp. London 1845, phys. 1846–62;
hon. sec. of Royal Institution of Great Britain 1860–72; author of
On gravel, calculus and gout 1842; On animal chemistry, in its
application to the stomach and renal diseases 1850; The life and
letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, 2 ed. 1870; The Royal institution, its
founders and its first professors 1871. d. 84 Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
London 20 April 1873. Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men
(1868) vol. ii, portrait i; Medical Times, i 505–8 (1873); I.L.N. lxii
423, 424, 499 (1873), portrait.
JONES, H R (son of rev. Inigo Wm. Jones of Chobham
place, Surrey d. 1810). b. 1808; cornet 6 dragoon guards 9 June
1825, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1862 when placed on h.p.;
col. 14 hussars 24 Feb. 1871 to 15 May 1873; col. 6 dragoon guards
15 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d.
Brighton 3 Oct. 1880.
JONES, H G (2 son of C. R. Jones of Heathfield,
Glamorgan). b. 1805; barrister L.I. 16 May 1828; went the Oxford
and Welsh circuits; attorney general in Van Diemen’s Land; serjeant
at law 1842; judge of county courts (circuit 42) Clerkenwell,
London 16 April 1849 and of (circuit 41) Clerkenwell 1858 to
death; author of The court of exchequer and the county courts 1858.
d. Somerville Navan, co. Meath 17 Feb. 1866 aged 61.
JONES, S H (son of David Jones, attorney). b. 15 Size lane,
Bucklersbury, London 20 May 1819; an architect at 16 Furnival’s
inn, Holborn 1843; designed and built the Surrey music hall, Cardiff
town hall and other important buildings; architect and surveyor to
city of London 26 Feb. 1864 to death; designed and built Central
meat market, Smithfield 1868, rebuilt Billingsgate market 1877 and
Leadenhall market 1882; designed Guildhall library and museum
1872 and new Council chamber 1884; designed the Temple Bar
memorial Nov. 1880; A.R.I.B.A. 1842, fellow 1855, pres. 1882–3;
knighted at Osborne 31 July 1886. d. 30 Devonshire place, Portland
place, London 21 May 1887. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 May.
Journal of proc. of R.I.B.A. iii 330, 331, 368, 370–3 (1887);
Masonic Portraits. By J. G. (1876) 27–31; I.L.N. 28 May 1887 p.
586, 4 June p. 634, portrait.
JONES, H C (son of John Jones of Liverpool). b. 1783; ed.
at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; private
sec. to duke of Portland, afterwards his chaplain; V. of West Ham,
Essex 1807–45; treasurer of St. Paul’s cath. 30 Oct. 1816 to death;
R. of Aldham, Essex 1823–40; archdeacon of Essex 14 Nov. 1823
to 1861. d. Brynstedfod, Conway, Denbighshire 29 Sep. 1869.
JONES, H H (son of R. M. Jones of Houston, Demerara).
Ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of St. James,
Cheltenham 1840–2; C. of St. Bride, Fleet st. London 1842–6; C. of
St. George, Hanover sq. 1847–8; assistant sec. of S.P.G. 1848–50;
archdeacon of Demerara and R. of St. George, George town,
Demerara, Oct. 1853 to 1873; C. of Cheddon-Fitzpaine, Somerset
1874–5; lived at Houston villa, Craven road, Reading 1875 to death.
d. 1884.
JONES, I W (brother of Henry Richmond Jones 1808–80). b.
1806; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836;
cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 July 1828; major 11 hussars 25 March
1836 to 24 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 24 Dec.
1852, placed on h.p. 11 March 1853; sold out March 1857. d. 3 Oct.
1878.
N .—His son Christopher Neeld Jones b. Aug. 1851, captain 94 foot, volunteered for
service with Royal Irish regiment and was killed at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 13 Sep. 1882.

JONES, J (4 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire). b. 1782 or


1783; cornet 22 light dragoons 6 Nov. 1801; captain 87 foot 17
Aug. 1808 to 31 Aug. 1815 when placed on h.p.; served in East
Indies 1802–4 and in Peninsula 1809–14; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H.
1831; knight of the order of Charles III. of Spain. d. Jermyn st. St.
James’s, London 22 Sep. 1856.
JONES, J (5 son of Samuel Jones). b. Wolverhampton; ed. Oscott
coll., ordained priest there 31 May 1822; chaplain Worksop manor,
Notts., Feb. 1824 to death; chaplain at Hodsock park, Notts.; a
member of the chapter of Nottingham 1850, V.G. and provost of the
diocese; translated The way of salvation. By B. Alphonsus Liguori
1836, and other works by the same author; Philothea or an
introduction to devout life. By St. Francis of Sales 1848; published
A manual of instruction on plain chant, with the chants as used in
Rome 1845. d. Worksop 19 May 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics,
iii 655–7 (1887).
JONES, J . b. London 6 April 1790; a copper and tin worker near
London docks; resident mechanist and engineer at St. Katherine’s
docks 1831–36; a manager for Ransomes & Co. at Ipswich 1842–
52; engineer of Oxford waterworks at Oxford 1852 or 1853 to
death; one of the 6 founders of Institution of civil engineers 2 Jany.
1818, sec. and treasurer 6 Jany. 1818. d. Radcliffe infirmary, Oxford
25 April 1864, having fallen into a vat of boiling liquid at Evans’s
brewery at Cowley the day before. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxiv 532–33
(1865).
JONES, J . b. north of Ireland; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1846, M.D. Lond.
1851, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised in London; senior physician
Metropolitan free hospital; author of On the use of perchloride of
iron and other chalybeate salts in the treatment of consumption
1862; On tuberculosis, the action of local inflammation in cachectic
subjects in the production of consumption 1865. d. 4 Harley st.
London 6 June 1871.
JONES, J F . Midshipman of the Palinurus in H.E.I. Co.’s navy
14 June 1828; commander 13 Sep. 1847, captain 1 Feb. 1858–62;
surveyed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 1843–8; political agent at
Bagdad and consul general in Turkish Arabia 1853; political agent
at Bushire in the Persian Gulf 1855–8; F.R.G.S.; contributed to
Geographical Mag.; most important of his numerous memoirs are
included in Selections from the records of the Bombay government.
1857, new series No. 43. d. Fernside, Church road, Upper Norwood,
Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. Geographical Mag., Oct. 1878 p. 264.
JONES, J R , known as Kilsby Jones, (son of Rhys Jones, farmer
and preacher). b. Penylan farm near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire 4
Feb. 1813; ed. at Blackburn coll. and Carmarthen coll.; independent
minister at Kilsby, Northamptonshire 1840–50; minister at
Birmingham, then at Bolton; pastor of Tonbridge congregational
chapel, London; preacher at Rhayadr 1857–60, at Caebach,
Llandrindod Wells 1868 to death; assumed additional name of
Kilsby before 1850; the most popular lecturer in Wales; Welsh
editor for William Mackenzie of Glasgow; published Welsh
versions of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress 1869; A Family Bible
1869; translated many books into Welsh and Welsh books into
English; in M. E. Braddon’s Hostages to Fortune 1875 he is
described under name of rev. Slingsby Edwards. d. 10 April 1889.
bur. Llanwrtyd ch. yard where is monu. Congregational Year book
(1890) 156–7.
JONES, J (2 son of Henry Jones). b. Bala, Merionethshire 10 Feb.
1792; ed. at Carmarthen gr. sch. and Jesus coll. and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; chaplain of Ch. Ch. 1819–43, precentor
1823; P.C. of St. Thomas, Oxf. 1823–41; V. of Nevern,
Pembrokeshire 1841 to death; preb. of St. David’s cath. 1848 to
death; took a leading part in the Welsh eisteddfods from 1841;
known as Tegid; published The book of the prophet Isaiah, a
translation 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The New Testament in Welsh 1828, in
his own system of spelling, which was not generally popular;
transcribed the Mabinogion and other Welsh romances for lady
Charlotte Guest, who used his text in her edition 3 vols. 1838–49. d.
2 May 1852. Gwaith Barddonawl. By Tegid (1859), with a memoir.
JONES, J . b. Northamptonshire 1823; beat Edward Hill 1846 and W.
Cole 1847; beaten by Joseph Rowe 1849; beat Harry Martin 1850
and G. Crockett £50 a side 15 Oct. 1850; beaten by Mike Madden
£50 a side 5 March 1851; beaten by Wm. Hayes £50 a side 2 Dec.
1851 and £200 a side 15 Nov. 1853; fought Edward Donnelly £50 a
side at East Tilbury when darkness came on 30 March 1853; beat
Donnelly £100 a side at Brandon Heath 1 June 1853; fought Robert
Brettle £100 a side at Purfleet 21 Nov. 1854 when darkness came
on, a new place was appointed for 25 Nov. when stakes were given
to Jones, Brettle having got himself apprehended; struck on the left
side of the head by Mike Madden at Long Reach, Kent 11 Dec.
1855 in a 23 round fight for £50 a side lasting one hour and nine
minutes, d. Long Reach tavern 12 Dec. bur. Westminster cemet.
Brompton 19 Dec. Fistiana (1868) 69, 77; Bell’s Life in London 16
Dec. 1855 p. 7, 23 Dec. p. 7.
JONES, J (eld. child of a small farmer). b. Tanycastell, Dolyddelen,
Carnarvonshire 1 March 1796; a farmer, afterwards a quarryman;
began to preach about 1820, ordained 1829, one of the greatest of
Welsh preachers; known as Talsarn; composed 40 tunes published
in Jeduthrum, a collection of Congregational tunes, psalms and
hymns, ed. by Morris Davis at Bangor. d. 17 Aug. 1857. bur.
Llanllyfni.
JONES, J . b. Llanasa, Flintshire 1788; apprenticed to a cotton-
spinner at Holywell 1796–1803; served in the navy 1805–15;
worked as a cotton-spinner at Stalybridge, Cheshire 1820 to death;
wrote a poetical version of Æsop’s and other fables; author of two
poems, The Cotton Mill 1821, The Sovereign 1827; a collection of
his works was published as Poems. By John Jones 1826; known as
the Welsh bard. d. Stalybridge 19 June 1858.
JONES, J . d. Newborough villas, St. Paul’s road, Highbury park,
London 15 Feb. 1861 aged 102. bur. Highgate cemet.
JONES, J . b. London 1796; appeared at Adelphi theatre in an
operetta The Conjurer 1816; came out in New York as Mr. Dulcet in
Amateurs and Actors, at Niblo’s garden 1828; at Chestnut st.
theatre, Philadelphia 28 Nov. 1831 as Felix in Cinderella; sang at
Park theatre, New York 1831–44; the leading tenor in La Dame
Blanche, Norma and Cinderella; teacher of vocal music 1844 to
death; had a pension from Dramatic fund association; composer of
The Mellow horn, a popular song. d. New York 1 Nov. 1861.
JONES, J . b. 1788; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; studied at Guy’s and St.
Thomas’ hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; founded a self supporting
dispensary at Derby; contributed numerous papers to Medical
Physical Journal, Provincial Medical Journal, Lancet and
Association Journal; author of On self supporting dispensaries, their
adaptation to the relief of the poor and working classes 1862. d. 27
Friargate, Derby 23 June 1863.
JONES, J . b. the Harp inn, Llanfairtalhaiarn near Abergele 1810;
brought up as an architect; general manager to sir Joseph Paxton; a
writer of Welsh words to the old Welsh airs, which are more often
sung with his words than with those of any other writer; published 3
vols. of poetry in 1855, 1862 and 1869. d. Falhaiarn 13 Oct. 1869
from the effects of an attempt on his own life. Works of J. Jones in
Welsh and English (1855).
JONES, J , the taken name of John Owen. b. 1832; blacksmith;
murdered 7 persons, Emmanuel Marshall blacksmith of Cheapside
in village of Denham near Uxbridge, his wife, sister, mother and
three children at Denham 22 May 1870, tried at Aylesbury assizes
before Baron Channell 22 July when sentenced to death; hanged by
Calcraft in the yard of Aylesbury gaol 8 Aug. 1870. A.R. (1870) 53,
97, 191–8; Bucks. Herald 23 July 1870 p. 4, 13 Aug. p. 4.
JONES, J . b. Bath 1800; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819;
captain 46 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1826; quartermaster general,
Bengal; surveyed province of Assam 1826; erected a small
observatory at Adsett court near Gloucester; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1835.
d. Torquay 7 April 1875. Monthly notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxvi
143 (1876).
JONES, J . b. near Wolverhampton 1835; sec. of South Staffordshire
Ironmasters’ Association to 1866; sec. to Cleveland Ironmasters’
Assoc. 1866; sec. of Middlesbrough chamber of commerce; sec. of
British iron trade assoc.; founded the Iron and Steel Institute 1868,
sec. and editor of its journal 1868 to death; founded and edited the
Iron and coal trades review Dec. 1866, and other newspapers;

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